Medicine: Embolectomy

Recently Sir Thomas Lewis, eminent
London heart specialist, made a special study of how an arm or leg dies
when an embolus (floating clot) plugs a main artery which feeds blood
to that limb. Competent heart specialists and surgeons generally
see such blood-starved limbs too late to save them from gangrene and
amputation. Last week, by chance, a Chicago doctor, Geza deTakats,
in the American Journal of Surgery, and a Toronto doctor, Donald
Walton Gordon Murray, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, each
gave explicit directions for locating such a destructive clot, removing...